RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO
"That's the only language I've ever been fluent in. I didn't grow up with anyone who taught me another one. My father solved every problem with a checkbook, and I watched it work, or at least I watched it look like it worked, for thirty years before I understood what it actually cost the people on the other end of the transaction."
It was, I realized, the most honest thing he had said to me in five years, and it landed somewhere I hadn't expected, somewhere softer than the anger I'd been carrying into the call, a small crack of sympathy opening despite myself. "Then maybe it's time you learned," I said, gentler now, though still firm. "Not for me. For whoever comes after this, if anyone does